What does a Network Engineer Do? OMG, I wanted someone to answer that question for me so badly when I first started. I believed that a career in networking would suit me because I was computer savvy, I was actually interested in technology from the standpoint of how it worked and I believed that I could be good at working with computers i

<p>You’ve probably heard claims like “network engineering is going away” or “all networking people must become programmers”. While I don’t agree with those statements, at all, there is no denying that our industry is changing, constantly, like it always has. This is nothing new. Being in IT is like a lifelong class where the curriculum keeps on changing every …

<p>It feels like only yesterday when I gave my first presentation on network automation at a major conference. Although the audience was impressed with our automation demos, their first question caught me off guard: “So will automation put us network engineers out of a job?”</p><p>This was a genuine concern back in 2015. Engineers worried new intelligent systems, such as Ansible …

So as a network engineer now I have supported call center networks, voice recording, phones and projects. Now I support a traffic network of cameras where I spend about 33% networking, 33% troubleshooting equipment on the network and 33% working with equipment that goes on …

My recommendation as a fresh CCNA is to learn more about networking rather than programming. There are lot of interesting things that you can do on many management applications using API's but at the end of the day - as a network engineer, you fix, break, troubleshoot, implement and design networks - that has VERY little to do with programming!

First off I am not a network engineer. However I have a lot of experience with different types of engineers at my place of work. My title is an IT Tech but where I work that translates to the guy that does everything. There is only the Director of Technology and myself.

As a network engineer however I end up having these discussions from clients and colleagues from time to time. There is no "right" answer to this. Both will solve your needs from a technical perspective, and there is absolutely *no need at all* to run either Windows or OS X from a technical point of view.

This base RF knowledge is a requirement in performing one of the most important tasks that a Wireless Engineer can have, performing a site survey! Now performing a site survey in and of itself can be a monumental task and takes a lot of time. There are several things to keep in mind just when preparing to do a survey.

The traditional roles of desktop support, server support and network engineer are "cloudy" when it comes to the cloud. As the network continues to unify, so will the skillsets. The server guy and I need to collaborate more as his stuff is much more dependant on the network when it comes to storage and virtualization.

So, anyway this post is long, I am sorry! I hope this helps someone. On to Tshoot!!! I hope to update the What Does a Network Engineer Do post soon also. I have had some fun projects at work. LINK WDNED: Happy Certing! First, CONGRATS on passing SWITCH and ROUTE. (so good I said it twice) I completely understand your statement of 0% on BGP.